Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shoppers infused with the holiday spirit of giving can help battle homelessness by purchasing fresh wreaths made and marketed by the local homeless and poor...
...that Kevin's final confrontation with the crooks -- this time he booby-traps a brownstone that is undergoing renovation -- lacks the bestartling hilarity of his previous battle with them. It may be that his bonding with a homeless pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) in Central Park is a touch too Christmasy. But it is a good-hearted excess. And that's the great thing about Home Alone 2. It is going to make a ton of money, but you never feel that's the only reason it was made. It respects itself and it respects us, and there's no reason...
...children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever." After the bombing sorties the King and Queen were out in the fields of rubble, consoling and encouraging the wounded and the homeless. The monarchy still draws on those reserves of love and loyalty. When the Queen Mother dies, the nation will come together as it may not for any occasion thereafter...
...with the nation's problems, Bill Clinton is cutting a different figure. He went jogging one morning last week in Washington, stopped on the way back at a McDonald's two blocks from the White House, ordered a cup of coffee and started to chat up the locals. One homeless man explained that he had been out of work for three years. A woman said she prayed for him every night. "That's why I go ((to McDonald's)) at home," Clinton said later. "You see a reasonable range of people in there...
...HOUSE IS NOT A HOME WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN A cardboard box. Or when city officials want to sweep you away like litter when the tourists come to town. In a ruling designed to offer some civil rights, if not civility, to the homeless, a federal judge in Miami has ordered the city to set up two "safe zones," where those without addresses can eat, sleep and bathe without being arrested. Although the decision applies to Miami, similar legal challenges to anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami...